116. From Prison To The American Dream Ft. Craig Long
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1 hour and 51 minutes
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199.5571
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Summary
In this episode of The Realists, we have a special guest on the show, a man who has been in and out of prison since the age of 15. He is a man of many talents, but his story is one of the most compelling and inspiring.
Transcript
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what's up guys it's andy frisella this is the show for the realists say goodbye to the lies
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the fakeness and delusions of modern society and welcome to motherfucking reality guys today we
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have a full-length show um and we have a special guest but before i introduce him bring him on
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uh i got the right a full crew here today i got sal i still don't have a nickname for him
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most handsome guy in the room yeah that's that would be a lot of nicknames supposed to be based
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in truth so i got type i got dj what's up what's up dj and then i got vaughn word what's up dude
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word the whitest dude in the room for sure so literally yeah yeah literally and figuratively
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and culturally yeah very true are you getting attacked for your whiteness urban white though
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are you getting attacked for your whiteness i am getting attacked for my whiteness i'm so white
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that even the white people i might have to wear sunglasses bro i'm so white even the white people
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don't like me true to that too yeah i should call sal bulldog bulldoze sal that's right i don't know
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what we should call i'll take it moving moving screen well i'm sure we're going to get to this
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eventually but let's just straight out speak the truth and say that this show is already racist
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oh yeah can i just say that because i don't know what madat was thinking but he segregated us
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oh yes like he got the two white guys and the two black guys what like what were you thinking
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and i'm like in the middle yeah yeah yeah that makes sense yeah yeah dude look
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uh look just so you guys know uh if you're not a fan of social issues this is not going to be the
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show for you just letting you know um some of you guys listen for motivation and business and
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knowledge we're going to hit on that today something that's going to be relevant to the
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discussion but i've got my friend who uh a lot of you guys don't know yet but you will know after
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the show craig long here he's from tampa how you doing bro what's up what's up uh he's got a
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tremendous story and a lot to say and basically guys i just want to bring on uh people who i think
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are doing a good job standing up for what they believe um and and this man has done that and so
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dude i am super happy to have you here and and get your message out and kind of get your story out
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you have a credible story absolutely um it's an honor man yeah bro and it's you know it's an honor to
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have you because you have taken things in life that were not favorable um that were your own
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my own your own doing right and then you know had some realizations and you know turn it around so
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like dude let's just start with like where you where you come from because literally most of these
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people don't know anything about you yet so yeah let's start back where you come from bro
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i grew up in north virginia close to dc um just to not get long-winded i'm an average american
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i've been in and out of trouble since the age of 15 i went straight to jail straight to prison
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didn't come home until 2009 i was 25 years old all i had was 25 for a bus ticket and a paper id
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you name it i've lived in people's couches i've lived in my car a 180 degree turn my life around
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it is true your decisions do determine where you end up in your life my decisions in my earlier days
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i lived a life of literally hell when i didn't really have to and now living a life of making good
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decisions applying myself to grow my life has took a major change right um i'm another example
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of the american dream the american dream is real right there's literally there's nobody on the 13th
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floor collaborating just to keep someone that looks like me down right there's no white supremacy
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racist white dust floating around that i could breathe in that will create me to have poor
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behavior or make bad decisions or why i fail right it's literally the decisions that you make in your
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life that will determine what your outcome is and i'm an example of that i'm an example of the american
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dream so in a nutshell that is who i am i am a business owner to tampa florida i am in florida now
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i own a gym um i've received all my civil rights back like i was telling you including my second
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amendment rights so we we do live in a country that has a scale right if you make good decisions and you
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are able to show that you turn your life around like it will reward you right so i just i want my
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inspiration my story to inspire people i want my story to show people that hey nothing holds you back
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nothing out here in this world uh is geared to hold anybody back if you know how to win and you apply
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yourself you will win um you will win so in a nutshell that's who i am and i'm sure we'll get
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into the nuts and bolts as we go on but i'm craig long and i'm not gonna give it to you with a chaser
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i'm gonna give it to you real as fuck you know what i mean bro that's why you're here man look dude i i we
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enjoy bringing people on like the one thing i like about what we do here is we don't i don't care if
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you have a 10 million followers if you're a fucking movie star or whoever you are or if you're just a
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regular dude out there grinding i actually think that that's the more powerful message in my opinion
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um you know people need to see and hear what you're talking about because dude you've been down
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the the negative path you know let's talk about that you know what what what got you uh put away for
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for for those those years well i can it wasn't no punk ass charges like i stole a bubble gum yeah
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right i know or i was messing what's you know what i mean no it wasn't you know i was living a street
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life man yeah i was out there caught up in that culture which is a destructive culture is something
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that i'm constantly talking about the destructive culture that just on destructive behaviors and i was
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i lived it i got caught up in it i was influenced by it um my because of that culture and because of
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my decisions of choosing a life like that right it led me into doing prison time a long exterior
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extended period of time in prison um i went to prison i shot two people um i lost my freedom i lost all my
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rights because i shot people now the people that i shot did they deserve it at the time absolutely
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you know what i mean thank god i have another chance that people are still here i will we won't
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go into detail of that but the people are still here and uh so i got another crack at life right and
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through that ordeal right prison is prison now i just want to clarify these were not just innocent
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people that you jacked running down these are not like i think what we hear on tv like a seven year
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old girl got shot um grandma down the street you got a ricochet this was a result of some criminal
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activity criminal activity criminals drive-bys you name it man like these people were some degenerates
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right you know what i mean just to to give clarity to to the people listening these people were some
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bad people um and at the time i wasn't i was a degenerate right i was an asshole you know what i mean
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i was somebody you didn't want to run across at that time but i always have been a good-hearted
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person but i made dumb decisions and it led me into prison i did prison time i i didn't do
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some i was at the jail for a couple i did real time man you know what i mean um lifers people that were
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on death row what was that like for you well what was the like your your experience in prison because
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i mean you see it on tv i mean you know six days in they got a couple of it you get a glimpse of it
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right but i mean what what was that really like for you when you when you from because jail and prison
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there's a big difference right like what when your first day in i mean what were you thinking
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what was going through your mind at that time um shit fuck i bet it was like oh i'll give you a
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back like they call it receiving this is where they take you from jail and you're going up the road
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right up the road is you're going to prison sorry to interrupt but how old are you this time
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i literally just turned 37 no no how old are you oh at the time oh man i'm i'm still wet behind the
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ears man i just turned 18 man i'm wet behind the ears so by the time i got to prison i was about 19
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years old man i hadn't even learned how to shave you know what i mean yeah um i left home i want to
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say around the age of 16 17 i was out on my own full-fledged 100 percent out there in the streets man
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you know you figured man a 19 year old green wet behind the ears you think you're a badass
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you know you it's easy to be a badass when you got this big ass gun on you and you got all your
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homies and you're out in the street and you guys are sticking together when you go into prison dude
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it's you know we see how the movies depict it right it's partially a lot of it is true yeah but
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there is a lot of stuff that goes on the prison it's another world and that world is like you're
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amongst the wolves man and when you're amongst the wolves you have to live like a wolf um so
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the stuff in prison is uh i don't know where you guys want me to go with that but
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well i you know when i knew i didn't want to go to prison when i saw uh there was an hbo special on
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behind the scenes of prison when i was about 10 and there was a dude on there and it said what's uh
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it said what's tossing salad and this dude goes oh god tossing salad he goes listen there's only
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two ways to toss salad that's where you get your your asshole eight and there's only two ways to do
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it with syrup and with jelly and i thought that i ain't doing that shit i'll tell you a story um
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i had violent crimes so in virginia at this particular prison they did it based off color codes
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so if you had violent crimes you're going to um you're they put you in they do it in pods and
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tiers yeah so if you had like you had robbery and things like that you would be downstairs pod
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but if you were considered a red code which was high violent like you were violent you've been in
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trouble at the jail you're fighting they put you at a high you're more at a high risk so they put you
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upstairs in the top tiers with the lifers people that have double homicides people never going home
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like the shit you would see on tv man like no no joke some of the biggest jokers that
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are the most feminist jokers you know what i mean like you just don't want to mess it's wild so
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the jelly type guys the jelly they literally look like big um vin rhymes jokers you know like holy
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shit yeah they've been lifting weight since they came out the wound you know what i mean
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i remember fucking grape jelly you stay the fuck away
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thank god they can't run he's too big that's hilarious he's got a utility belt
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and a fucking strawberry and a grape and a surf in the back oh yeah dude yeah hey stay away from that
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dude seriously seriously man i remember my first day when they finally told me you're going upstairs
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to the top tier you're red you're you're you're upstairs with the lifers the violent crimes murder
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double homicides right so you have this big metal box the tote that's what they call it you got your
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mesh bag with all your linen and things like that and they have these big power doors that go
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right and you got to go in and then it closes behind you but as you're going in you hear just
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pure chaos people are talking slamming bones arguing it's ah and but remember you're not on the street
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anymore there's no more weapons your homeboys aren't they you're there and you're green you're coming
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from the jail lack of your malnutrition you don't you're skinny as hell everybody's like well thick
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and ready to go they've been lifting and working out and all i read i hear ah so it was time to open
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the door to get me into the pod and all i remember is the door going and it was literally
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and you can hear a mouse fart like that's how quiet went right and i was like holy shit the box is heavy
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i got all this shit and i'm like dragging the box and everybody's got this if looks could kill stare at
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you and i just thought to myself holy shit what the what the fuck did i just get myself into
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i have to figure out how to get the hell out of this right no lie dude scared to death yeah i thought
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i was a badass no man scared to death dude that's got to be a crazy feeling dude because i guarantee
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you you learned your fucking lesson right there already now you got all this time to fucking deal
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with it yeah you know i'm saying i thought i was a badass man i've gotten plenty fights in there
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yeah they have they have this thing called store boxes where you're like running an enterprise it's
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like a little business you try to start you want a honey bun one for two i'm going to give you my
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honey bun i want two back and i remember trying to start a store box and the dude i had a dude buck on
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me right like i'm not paying you shit get it how you live and i was like oh shit this is it i gotta
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this is what this is where i start my claim this is where they find out if i'm one of the punk asses
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well i'm somebody's gonna stand up from i remember man dude was big he was kicking my ass slamming me
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but i just was relentless man i they would count time would come they would break us up
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when they're ready to release us out again into the pot i was going back to fight them
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and it got to the point where the guy was like his boys was like look man here's the shit he owes
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let's just leave this shit alone right and it even though i was getting my ass whooped
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it kind of created a respect level for sure like this is a guy that's going to stand up for himself
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which which is funny later on us the years go by i actually get into it with the same guy but
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this time i'm like healthy i've been eating noodles and noodles and shit lifting i'm like yeah
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yeah let's go now motherfucker use body so it's it's weird how that world works you know what i
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mean but i learned a lot man i learned a lot um being in that situation so so dude you get out of
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jail right like you do all this time you get out you've got what'd you say 100 bucks uh they give
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you 25 25 bucks 25 bucks to buy a bus ticket now what you're literally deposited back into society
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yeah with nothing with nothing literally nothing yeah what was your family support like during that
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time um so me and my father were already rocky yeah like i my i hadn't talked to my father in like
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three and a half years like it's one of those like i had a beef with him but i always respect him
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right right like that's something that the bible says you should always honor and respect your father
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and your mother and i always will honor my father and my mother but we were beefing before i went into
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to prison and um i knew that i did not want to go back i needed to change the surroundings of where i lived
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yeah um so i decided instead of going back to virginia i'm going to be released to north carolina
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where my father was living so he i went to transition at my father i think i've lasted
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two months and then i left to go with an ex-girlfriend that i used to be with before i
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went to prison so the support was it was there um but even with the support i still really had to
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work hard really really had to work hard well it's a whole new environment you got a new set of rules
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you got to try to follow right you just you probably just finished adjusting to the prison rule and now
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you got to now had to relearn everything relearn everything like um i think the best thing you
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could if we use cell phones the flip cell phone with a panda bear black and white panda bear was
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like the hottest thing you could have i could to coming home you have facebook and all these different
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things and then the phone rings in the car and i'm like holy shit the phone's ringing in the car
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like so it was kind of a culture shock for me but um i didn't let it stop me man i mean challenge
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after challenge after challenge i had to overcome it so craig um back in i'd say probably 2004 2005
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i spent an afternoon in the riley county jail oh really so i knew before i ever researched it i could
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see that you'd been in the clink i had that kind of connection with you get the fuck out of here
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real recognize real you know what i'm saying yeah yeah but but it also here's my question for you we
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were we were talking a little bit he's fucking hard this motherfucker's heart is nails
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he's going in real i was like well soon as god he was underselling bibles that's what he went in for
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you guys talking about jelly and syrup i'm talking about almond butter right here
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that is hilarious no but uh in all seriousness so you you were talking a little bit before
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we actually name new meaning to the word nut butter huh
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no but uh you know we were talking a little bit before we started recording you're talking about
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kind of your your family background that kind of thing and i think you'd be the first to say
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nothing forced you into the decisions that you made no there were no factors that that compelled you
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to do that but i'm curious what were the lies that you believed or embraced that led you to make
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those bad choices um can you clarify more about what you mean yeah like i mean what what really
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was the impetus for you deciding okay well i've got i've got a mom and dad i knew a little bit about
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the bible in terms of honoring my mom and dad so it sounds like you had a little bit of a solid
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foundation yeah what were the factors that kind of contributed to you going down that path uh and
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that's a good question that's something i often try to critique if i could go back so that i can
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connect with other with youth that may be going through that transition maybe they've gotten in
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trouble or something and i you know we all hear like this right now in our society how important
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fathers are right and you know i have a father but my mother and father they went through a divorce
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right so my even though i had a great father that was always a father he was not there per se like
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if you had a father that was always there but when he was there he he instilled certain values and
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principles in me um so me taking that path was more so a decision on my part um but i they i guess my
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they raised me to they've always raised me to work hard right so that the if i were to say lies
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lies in a sense of um like let's say the whole black thing like oh you're black and because you're
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black you got to really really work your ass off because man they don't want to see nobody wants to
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see you excel and this that and the third so if that if i were to say that's a lie that that is one
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of the lies um that i would say uh as far as just society yeah per se um another lie would be
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people constantly no matter what color you are people constantly would say oh you can't do something
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or oh man you're done now you're a felon you ain't gonna get your gun rights back you're done oh life is
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gonna be so hard for you man you're gonna have to just get a construction job and that kind of
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right right which obviously i've defied all of those um lies thus far so like your mistakes define
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you from here on out yeah like like that's it you got a black cloud you're gonna be a black sheep
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now i think they start that now they're starting i mean like if we're being we're gonna have an
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honest conversation this is where we get into the crt stuff you know they look they look at black
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children and they look the people who trust them the most their parents their teacher or i'm sorry
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the people they look up to for guidance parents teachers uh school officials okay athletes and
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that big athletes like they're the gatekeepers of bro how can we we can't look and i'm getting way
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ahead of myself here but the truth is is that dude society creates this scenario where black children
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do not believe they have the opportunity to win and if you convince a child no matter what color
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that they cannot do something because their their pigment is different than i mean bro first of all
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are we that primitive of a species where we are literally evolved from fucking who knows how long
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we're still arguing over the pigment of people's skin yeah so unfortunate it's fucking dude it's so
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elementary and primitive that if you really think about it it's it's sad it's sad that we do that
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in this country and and and now we have these systemic things like crt which we want to talk about real
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systemic racism the real systemic racism is looking at a black child or a brown child and saying
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you can't be anything because you were born here looking like that or on the flip side telling a
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little white child or something wrong they're inherently going to be racist just because they're
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right dude that it's crazy it's fucked up i argue with these people constantly yeah online they think
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that everybody white is racist inherently like if you had a child the moment that the child is born
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it's a racist child because they're white it's like like that is pure evil yeah in hatred like that's
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like what what i watch my son walk in that classroom i don't give a shit of a black white
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pink purple boy girl that he's going and play yeah exactly the kids don't know what the hell is going
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on they don't look at things at that lens and i guess to go into your question that's the lie
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like oh because you're black you got to work so much harder but guess what you're white and you
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got to work so much harder this spanish guy over here he he's got to work so much everybody has to
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work so much harder if you want to be actually be anything that's the thing that gets lost craig
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is like dude we it's it's hard for fucking everybody it's not easy for anybody and dude
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are there scenarios still in this country where a black person may be treated differently than a
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white person yeah there probably are but i would argue that those scenarios are based off of previous
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experiences it's a personal bias correct so like if you have a police officer who is uh a little
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nervous because he's got three black males in front of him well the reason he's fucking nervous is
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because he's been in this situation before and things have happened usually or they happen to their
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partner correct so we and we talked about this on the black square episode you know if we really want
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to fix shit we have to fucking all grow the fuck up and say hey dude this ain't about black or white or
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brown or red or yellow or anything this is about us being good people and good individuals and
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taking the leadership in all of our communities and teaching them the right things whether i'm a
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white man and you know speaking to to my little circle of people or uh you as a black man you're
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speaking to the people that you influence the way to fix this shit guys is that we all have to say
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hey we're not buying this shit no more and we're going to be above it and we're going to teach the
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right things and be the right things yeah be the example yeah the problem right now though is that
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we're trying to create solutions for things that aren't really problems right and then the things
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that are really problems we ignore yeah right so so one of the things that really caught me off guard
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have you guys seen the new trailer for the movie karen have you seen that i haven't seen it so
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well i want to touch on it because you've actually you've talked about it but so this new movie is
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coming out called karen and so basically it's creating this idea that every single black person
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that buys a house in a white neighborhood is going to get attacked by a white person
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right like that's the overarching theme of this what's the move what's the propaganda so what's
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the movie about it's about a black family moving into an all-white neighborhood and their next-door
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neighbor karen is that let me tell it how this is real as fuck let me tell you how this shit is man
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the karen movie is about a racist white karen is they call her karen she gets a new black couple
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in their neighborhood and she's apparently she's racist and she starts terrorizing and trying to kill
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their neighbor brother's a cop but it if the brother's a cop but it's propaganda so she gets
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him to harass these people too like all of them are in on it they're terrorizing black folks it's all
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the propaganda that's going to create a healthy fucking it does not help it's racially charged
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it's antagonistic it's more propaganda and it's stereotyping i bet it doesn't get banned from
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twitter and facebook oh absolutely not and this is the thing like we live in a country where freedom
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of speech yeah you can express and do whatever you want to do but it doesn't necessarily mean you
00:25:55.920
you should do it but hey you have the freedom to do it but how would the same people that say they
00:26:01.960
want equality the social justice warrior right the people that are running around with the black
00:26:06.380
squares and they're pumping their fish in the air and they're all the black love and pro black and all
00:26:10.580
that stuff right do you notice that most those people are fucking white right i know i see them
00:26:17.300
out there washing people's fucking feet can you imagine that shit they're washing people's funky
00:26:22.740
ass feet don't touch my fucking pumping their fish in the air with solidarity reviews we get bro
00:26:26.880
i get these reviews you're getting ready to get some reviews remember the one oh bro i don't fucking
00:26:31.140
care fucking bring me the reviews bitch i don't give a fuck dude we laugh at them so just remember
00:26:37.160
that when you fucking dog me i'm sitting in my gym probably just got on my fucking ferrari and me and
00:26:42.360
dj are fucking laughing laughing at it so dude but remember that one we got a few weeks ago where
00:26:46.700
that dude was like or the woman was like yeah just another white guy who talks about how he has black
00:26:51.960
friends and then but then they go on and and they fucking read it and you could tell it's coming
00:26:58.300
from a white person yeah like and it's like bro you don't even know what the fuck you're talking
00:27:03.160
about right none of the hate that i ever get for talking about these things ever ever ever it's
00:27:08.460
always white cushy liberals who grew up middle class or upper middle class who and dude the truth
00:27:15.040
is they feel guilty for them not having any resistance so they got a warrior for everybody else's
00:27:20.460
shit right and like dude right y'all motherfuckers need to shut the fuck up yeah because you don't
00:27:24.500
have any real experience you don't you don't even know what it's really like you've never been out
00:27:29.020
there in the real world yep and dude we're fucking tired of it that's the biggest thing right because
00:27:34.360
the the narrative it can be scary right so like seeing that movie karen right if if let's say this
00:27:39.960
was pre i bought my house right then the movie came out and i saw that movie it would probably scare
00:27:44.820
the shit out of me right but the truth is it's gonna shape some people's minds yeah i mean it's gonna
00:27:48.220
fuck with some people it's similar i mean you just moved into a prime a primarily white
00:27:51.860
you have a karen so that's the thing it's like it's like but so you hear this narrative but
00:27:56.660
go step into the real world let's stop let's so you have a real perspective on this right
00:28:01.540
dj dj for real when i met dj one of his goals and by the way i'm super proud of this dude because
00:28:09.760
he's a fucking hard-ass worker he fucking has lost 50 fucking something pounds since we started
00:28:15.360
training oh bro bro this motherfucker was fat yeah i was bad it was bad now he's just chubby
00:28:23.880
all right we're working on it and and i'm slim thick that's right slim thick it's a bit it's
00:28:28.680
fucking sexy that's right so dude and that's the look right now bro that is the look so warmth
00:28:34.740
in the winter that's right shade in the summer that's right bro so this dude comes in he's got
00:28:39.820
all these goals right and like you know i don't know this dude from anybody i'm he's telling me
00:28:44.820
all this shit and i'm looking at him he's 350 i'm like yeah right you know whatever this motherfucker
00:28:49.640
tells me he's like he had just gotten his uh his his fiancee they were having a baby and he's like
00:28:55.760
yeah dude i'm getting my shit together and i'm like yeah yeah yeah because like dude when i see
00:29:00.040
somebody who's overweight like that i know i know i've been that i've been 350 i've been the guy who
00:29:06.160
says man i'm gonna get my shit together for 10 years straight right you know what i'm saying
00:29:09.820
like i've been that dude so i kind of didn't take it seriously you know no offense to you but like i
00:29:15.100
hear this shit everywhere and you know sure as fuck dude weight's coming off shit's coming together
00:29:20.720
dude gets himself a fucking he never lived in a house before his entire life we went to we went
00:29:27.180
and see dude people don't know this about you they think that you live some cush shit this
00:29:31.240
motherfucker grew up with with a one-parent household in the worst neighborhood in fucking
00:29:36.260
st louis and if you don't st louis st louis is a murder capital per capita of the united states
00:29:40.300
terrible place okay for for crime wonderful people bad leadership um that's my take on st louis by the
00:29:49.820
way i'm running for mayor next year so i'll fix this shit but here's the thing you know we we drive
00:29:56.800
down to see where you know david dorn uh the police officer that got killed when the riots were
00:30:01.400
happening this past year yeah so so we went down to pay our respects we got to talking about where
00:30:07.280
we each come from and where we you know where he comes from where i come from etc etc yeah and this
00:30:14.480
dude has never lived in a house before never lived in a house always apartments his whole life i couldn't
00:30:19.440
fucking like to me that was the one thing that blew my mind i'm like fuck dude imagine never ever ever
00:30:24.900
like he's a homeowner now yeah that's right a big accomplishment bro and in a fucking white
00:30:28.820
neighborhood yeah or do they treat you bad bro i i get so much peaceful ain't it well like my next
00:30:34.040
door navy's sharing bro let's be real man that's the thing i get like bro i don't have no fucking
00:30:40.360
potholes on my street there's no fucking trash in the gutters i mean like you got hoa fees now
00:30:45.380
i do have hoa fees but bro they're not coming nobody's fucking with you oh no bro listen
00:30:51.680
troops on yet son did anybody like um knock on your door and welcome you would like that was
00:30:59.180
the craziest bro so listen i swear to guys so no shit so we the day we're moving in right
00:31:04.460
like we're moving in like we're bringing i'm bringing shit in the house and we get a fucking
00:31:08.300
knock on the door i'm like you're like oh shit here it comes so i open the door and it's this
00:31:16.280
little white lady and she has this fucking cup of a little tray of cupcake that's it that's it
00:31:21.160
and like i love white people blew my mind because i'm like bro i've seen this shit in the movies
00:31:25.440
like you know what i'm saying this is interesting i fucking say i take those cupcakes and we go in
00:31:30.240
the kitchen and we like alex is like she's like babe should we eat them like you think we should
00:31:33.180
eat them like i'm like hey listen i'm like listen if this if this is gonna take me out i'm gonna let
00:31:38.980
it fucking take me out i fucking ate it it's the best fucking cupcake i've ever had in my life
00:31:42.540
and and now me and her husband we compete for who who has the best lawn like dude it's beautiful
00:31:48.340
it's like so you're doing real white people bro listen the flag is fine my fucking stripes are
00:31:53.240
getting on point you know what i'm saying white stripe yeah white new balance i gotta get the
00:31:57.140
new balances i ain't there yet i got you but i got the gas grill but i mean my point is though it's
00:32:01.260
like so you hear these these narratives that come out right and it's the same analogy that i gave
00:32:06.120
i might have been the black square too right it's like you're sitting inside your house in this box
00:32:09.620
and somebody comes in every fucking day in the room so they don't go outside it's raining
00:32:13.560
right like okay cool i don't want to get wet and the next day they come in hey bro listen you go
00:32:18.280
outside it's a fucking thunderstorm don't go out there there's fucking tornadoes you don't go outside
00:32:22.460
and they come in the next time bro there's a fucking hurricane but then you look at them like you're not
00:32:26.200
even fucking wet right and so so you you go outside of that narrative you go you step outside and it's
00:32:32.160
fucking beautiful right like and so like that's how you have to challenge those narratives and so this this
00:32:37.100
thing about the fucking karen movie it really bothers me because that's gonna hold a lot of
00:32:41.360
people back from even fucking attempting to be homeowners right and the reality is is you go in
00:32:47.240
those situations gonna be fucking 10 times better than what you're the bullshit that you're dealing
00:32:50.680
with right now like where we came from on the loft that was downtown in st louis we had protests up and
00:32:55.680
down our street people were breaking fucking windows bro there were shootings on the street every
00:32:59.220
fucking every night i said i've sent you videos like they were fucking carjackings right in front of my
00:33:03.680
you know i'm saying so it's like it's stereotyping we gotta break not healthy especially with the
00:33:08.320
climate that we have right now in our society it's stereotyping and what's funny these social
00:33:13.200
justice warriors these gatekeepers of the world that that are already successful to tell a whole
00:33:18.060
another group of people right we all know life and death is in the tongue you can speak life over
00:33:23.440
somebody but you can also speak death and it's funny that these gatekeepers these people that are
00:33:27.980
already successful these grifters they always speak death over other people saying no there's
00:33:32.800
something systemic there's something that's holding you back right because of the color of your skin
00:33:37.360
so when you see these type of um poetic uh artwork displayed through hollywood like karen it's so
00:33:46.480
it's so much stereotype and propaganda you have to ask these people hey it's wrong wrong is wrong
00:33:52.720
would you like it if they made a movie a white director made a movie called shaquisha
00:33:57.440
a angry black racially charged woman is willing to fight you in any fast food restaurant or airport
00:34:04.720
you know i mean it's it's stereotyping and then it's just wrong so i can't stand that movie
00:34:10.860
i can't stand that that this is happening in our country well i think that craig too bro i think the
00:34:17.000
important point of this is you we have to understand this isn't just art it's not just art no it's not
00:34:22.480
this is designed strategically that's correct so so you know we when you when we sit here and we
00:34:28.140
talk about fuck it's wrong well it's only wrong based on our value system yep it's not wrong based
00:34:33.300
on our value system of saying hey we need to create some stuff so that this keeps the division going so
00:34:39.660
that we can that's exactly correct because dude you guys whether you're black white left right it i don't
00:34:45.440
give a fuck by the way i don't care there's a lot of people from the left listen to this show
00:34:49.300
i consider myself part of the middle the left don't consider me that they consider me far right
00:34:54.480
because everybody's far right that doesn't agree with the narrative 100 yeah i'm okay with that too
00:34:59.380
i don't really give a fuck what you guys think my job here and what i strive for is solutions
00:35:04.400
and coming together in unity and it and and dude we we cannot do that when we have people who are
00:35:11.780
constantly fear-mongering and throwing a message to people because bro you can't if let's just take
00:35:18.540
your example dj you know you have someone let's just say who's told a certain thing their whole
00:35:24.020
life and then you know they start to see a little bit you're like oh fuck dude i don't know this
00:35:30.300
doesn't seem right and then all of a sudden you got this movie or that propaganda or this message
00:35:35.000
coming from lebron james or this or that or this you're like see i knew that shit was true so it's like
00:35:40.980
it's very dangerous for us not to question what the purpose is for the information that we're
00:35:49.040
receiving no matter where you are whether you're a black man or a white man or a brown man or like
00:35:54.360
to me i don't give a fuck what you are i see everybody the same as americans yeah um and i wish we
00:35:59.440
we would get we're moving away from that i think the last couple years i actually think at this moment
00:36:05.600
right now we are actually moving towards that for the first time that i've been able to notice
00:36:11.040
because i see a lot of people who are frustrated with the politics i mean we fucking all are bro
00:36:18.040
every single one of us bro we all know we all know that when we go out in the real world and we go to
00:36:24.740
the store or we go to here we go to that most people are good most yeah and dude they're feeding
00:36:31.280
this shit down our throats so that in my opinion and this is what i see i'm pretty good strategic
00:36:37.060
thinker um to keep certain segments of the population where they are yeah so that they
00:36:44.140
can continue to get the vote for them you know what i mean like bro like you can't vote for hey we're
00:36:51.380
gonna fix all these problems if there's not any fucking problems so we have to create the problems to
00:36:56.320
create the vote to create these guys power and when we think about it like that it makes perfect
00:37:01.260
sense well i mean andy it's every election all we always hear is these campaigns vote or die
00:37:09.040
vote or die right and it's like we need change we need change but i'm just going to talk about me
00:37:17.100
the black community yeah it's very monolithic right 97 clip votes for the same party every single time
00:37:26.200
right and it's like these people are always saying we need change we need change but they keep voting for
00:37:30.980
the same party which some most of these states expecting a different outcome expecting a different
00:37:36.800
outcome most of these states are blue states right ran by black mayors ran by uh they have black police
00:37:45.540
chiefs some of these inner cities have a predominant black police officers so it's like hey you keep
00:37:52.840
putting the same political party that you want change it's the same one that you guys keep voting for
00:37:59.120
in the same states that you live in that run the same cities and by the way they're coming with the
00:38:04.060
same message look at all over and over and over look at all this problem the problem never gets fucking
00:38:08.760
fixed at all it's been 50 years when we're gonna fix it guys right right and i feel like people are
00:38:14.500
invested to keep it going oh you cannot convince me that america is more racist today than it was for
00:38:20.960
previous years like obama right obama did a speech in 2013 in morehouse college and he's he and you can
00:38:28.420
look it up this you can quote it he says it doesn't matter what your upbringing was it doesn't matter if
00:38:34.200
you've been faced with discrimination nobody cares nobody cares whatever you think you're going through
00:38:39.880
it literally is a pale compared to previous generations we have opportunities he also spoke about how we have to
00:38:46.780
compete against the world people from coming from other humbling beginnings other countries to come
00:38:52.280
to america and they strive they literally strive like if i use the nigerian right there's nigerians
00:38:59.100
that's blacker than all of us in this room but not the nigerians considered um they they actually refer
00:39:05.660
to them superior in performance when it comes to academia even in business financing they're black if it's
00:39:13.120
color of a skin and there's someone on the 13th floor and the system is so biased towards the color
00:39:18.660
of the skin why is the nigerian have a pass the nigerian comes here and destroys man yeah so it's it's
00:39:25.300
that is just one example of many so it's and like i was telling you in this country the american dream
00:39:31.680
the system the system will work if you work the system right if you make good decisions and you live a
00:39:36.820
life and you have you build relationship currencies uh and you work and you work and you work and you never
00:39:41.640
give up and you're consistent and you follow the universal principle of success right which cares
00:39:47.620
nothing about what color you are cares nothing about how big you are or how skinny you are how tall how
00:39:53.740
short you are what your creed is or what your religion you are if you practice those universal principles of
00:39:59.260
success daily consistently with urgency and patience at the same time and you're applying yourself and you're
00:40:06.660
crafting your craft molding your craft learning new skill and applying it and bringing value to the
00:40:11.840
marketplace it will in return pay for it will pay off but people have lost how to win they literally
00:40:18.960
lost how to win so i always love to use my story just to inspire people and encourage them that hey
00:40:25.420
this same america with all these narratives and all this stuff that's going on like you've got to be able
00:40:30.640
to take the cloak off wake up from the coma if you're in one move the dust out of your eye and really look
00:40:38.660
at the clear picture of what it really takes to be successful and really make something of yourself how to
00:40:43.260
make a difference right it's possible right i'm the same guy an american dream built myself up i made dumb
00:40:51.660
decisions turn my life around i have a significant amount of success now i got so much more to go
00:40:56.740
i get plenty of confirmations that i'm on the right path got all my civil rights back remember
00:41:02.720
i went to prison for shooting two people the same country that they say is so racist and the system
00:41:07.600
is against me because of the color of my skin i got my civil rights back including my second amendment
00:41:12.360
rights the same i went to prison lost all my rights for shooting people and now i received all my rights
00:41:18.260
back well now you're a successful business owner dude and you're only going further that way yeah you know
00:41:25.540
so here's something i was wondering about you um when you when and i think this kind of lends itself
00:41:34.180
to what vaughn asked earlier in a different way so when you were when you were uh running the streets
00:41:40.400
and doing the bad shit yeah okay did you have a different mentality in terms of like the victim mindset
00:41:47.620
then um i never had me personally i never had a victim mindset but i will say i didn't see a vision
00:41:54.460
for myself at the time yeah there's no i didn't i and that's just as bad as the crt shit by the way
00:42:01.600
you know and we tell what's just as bad is telling people not only can they not be anything but not
00:42:10.020
giving them any fucking leadership to be anything and i think that's what's missing in the country
00:42:14.260
right now yeah what's missing is we don't have good leadership right we all know you guys are leaders
00:42:20.480
you guys run a very successful company it would not be as successful if you didn't have the right
00:42:26.040
leadership right so leadership's important our country does not have good leadership i always use
00:42:30.920
an example like if we use history um you guys know who booker t washington is right i was just gonna bring
00:42:36.620
him up booker t washington is like one of the original conservatives right i'm conservative book yeah
00:42:42.220
you had booker t it was binary you had booker t washington versus w.e.b du bois w.e.b du bois was
00:42:49.400
like an agitator no we gotta fight we gotta riot we gotta burn things down we gotta agitate to get
00:42:56.380
progress in this country right what do we see right now we have the w.e.b du bois frame of leadership
00:43:03.520
right now within just using the black community uh and white liberals as well in this country it's to
00:43:09.580
agitate it's to push push push that's what we have when versus uh booker t washington was hey
00:43:15.640
um let's we're all in america let's respect each other let's respect ourselves let's build ourselves
00:43:22.940
up let's uh empower each other through education through learning let's build businesses let's go
00:43:29.400
out and add value to the marketplace let's pull ourselves up by the bootstrap right which he was one
00:43:34.020
of the people where eventually the president consulted him yeah did they consult w.e.b du bois no
00:43:39.720
right not saying that that w.e.b du bois didn't have a legacy but booker t washington's legacy is a whole
00:43:45.940
so much more powerful right he didn't take an anti-white stance or an anti-american stance so
00:43:52.160
if we look at this country that's what we're going through right now just using our past you know what
00:43:57.140
amazes me about that comparison that you made uh craig is that you look into both of those guys lives
00:44:03.340
and booker t washington horrific background up from slavery yep w.e.b du bois he comes from
00:44:11.380
entitled cush entitled when it was free he's he's got all these degrees he's respected by all these
00:44:17.820
academics and yeah i mean he booker t washington by today's standards he would be considered pretty
00:44:24.120
pretty controversial because he was like they would call him what they call me uncle tom that's right
00:44:29.620
and he didn't he say basically listen i'm not concerned about segregation or desegregation i'm
00:44:35.860
concerned with us taking care of our business and becoming so excellent at what we do that eventually
00:44:40.860
the white man says huh let's do business with those guys right exactly and it's becoming undeniable and
00:44:46.400
and and du bois didn't but du bois essentially say oh you're capitulating you're just basically i mean
00:44:51.840
i don't want to use the term enemies but they essentially called him the white man's house
00:44:55.420
you know and uh and but what what's fascinating to me about that is that if you look at the history
00:45:01.200
of the civil rights movement you got your you got your booker t washington you got your du bois but
00:45:05.900
then even with you know in the 60s you had martin luther king who wasn't like modern day people saying
00:45:11.460
america sucks he was saying actually american ideals are amazing the problem is is you all aren't living
00:45:17.560
up to your ideals now if we actually live up to our ideals preach but but what's amazing is if you
00:45:24.420
get into if you get into martin luther king half of his quotes are from the founding fathers half of
00:45:30.360
his quotes are basically saying i love america but you guys aren't living up to america whereas you got
00:45:35.860
the the malcolm x over there going screw america by any means necessary plymouth rock landed on us etc etc
00:45:42.240
so my question is you mentioned that that the current black community is so monolithic in its culture
00:45:47.480
well i think they're presented that way bro presented so so so that's a media manipulation
00:45:52.800
i just have to jump in yeah a lot of them are like non-partisan you know what i mean i think there's
00:45:59.320
i think from from what i've observed is there's a lot of the black culture who has conservative beliefs
00:46:08.700
absolutely and just call them the wrong thing well well we're raised that way yeah for sure and dude
00:46:14.580
the thing is is that that now it's more so they don't want to say out loud that because the truth
00:46:21.220
is bro that du bois mentality exists within the black culture right now anytime a young black man or
00:46:29.020
young black woman tries to better themselves or goes out in the traditional path of trying to become
00:46:35.580
successful and does so in the company of white people they are told that they're a sellout yep they
00:46:41.120
are told that they are kissing ass to the white man or you're acting white so yeah so so what does
00:46:46.620
that do that all they're doing is going out in the world bro the world the statistics are uh 12 to 13
00:46:52.680
percent african-american that means most of the people are going to be a different color than you
00:46:56.920
if you're black yeah so if you're out in the world and you're trying to make your way and you're trying
00:47:00.740
to do all this shit and you got all your people saying hey you're fucking sellout that's not a good
00:47:05.780
it's like a crab in a barrel that's right that's a cultural issue that has to be fixed we should be
00:47:11.600
rewarding and praising people who go out and try to better themselves it's not selling out anything
00:47:18.500
it's working together to make a better place all right 100 that is one of the most damaging
00:47:24.280
but dude when you're 14 or 15 or 16 years old and you're saying i want to do this i want to do that and
00:47:29.660
i want to do this and your your your big brother or your big cousins down the street who are 25
00:47:34.420
who are you know doing their fucking fucked up shit that you were doing yeah that shit's exciting
00:47:39.400
yeah right well no it's not just that but they're telling these younger impressionable people you
00:47:43.600
don't have a fucking chance to do that bro and if you do do it you're a sellout to me right like dude
00:47:48.680
that that sort of resistance is wrong it is it's um american i always say we need culture reform in
00:47:56.820
america yeah for sure there's so many aspects of american culture that needs reform right in the
00:48:02.880
black community in america right it needs culture reform as well they glorify the badass syndrome
00:48:09.920
is what i call it it's glorified it's even in the music right sometimes i refer to the music as
00:48:14.880
suicidal poetry with good beats yeah right it's constantly bro i love it but i'm not gonna argue
00:48:20.280
with that dude i love it too it's got good it's suicidal poetry sometimes with good beats it's like
00:48:25.000
man yeah yeah yeah but the whole time you're rocking out they're talking about killing people
00:48:29.240
and it's getting you in that mindset of the negative it's putting you in the badass syndrome
00:48:34.800
yeah yeah i'm lifting weights yeah wow yeah you know what i mean so it's like there's a lot of
00:48:40.400
influence yeah that um really it's just overly glorified like they sometimes we overly glorified
00:48:47.980
ben from the hood yeah right like that shit ain't cool it's not cool at all man like we we should
00:48:54.540
glorify dr ben uh not not dr ben um ben carson yeah right we should glorify thomas this person
00:49:00.280
being a doctor yeah you know what i mean but but i guess and maybe in some instances they do
00:49:06.180
right but i didn't where was it at i didn't see it when i was growing up you know everybody wanted
00:49:11.260
to be part of the narrative bro it really is plenty of black successful people out there they're just
00:49:16.440
not promoted they're not because that's not part of the indoctrination the indoctrination is
00:49:21.600
black people need to stay poor they need to stay fighting at their throats they need to uh create
00:49:27.340
these things so that they can vote for us to fix the problems that don't actually exist exactly and
00:49:31.220
that's that is we have to get smarter about that and like dude this is not a to me this is not a
00:49:37.160
race issue this is a fucking american culture issue it's like we need culture reform i agree with
00:49:42.820
another question too it's like when you look at when you have these successful black people right
00:49:47.000
you don't you don't see them out at fucking blm protests holding up signs no but you do see some
00:49:53.640
of them who are the ones that are gatekeepers the ones that are glorified by the media
00:49:59.400
perpetuate the shit they're a part of the machine yeah but that's the thing it's like a democratic
00:50:04.240
cabal but they but like the real successful like so like a dave stewart for example right he's not
00:50:08.680
gonna be at a blm protest but ceo that man gives technology that man gives he's from ferguson
00:50:13.620
billions of dollars every fucking year no no no no he's multi-billion no i'm saying but he gives
00:50:18.780
millions oh yes you know i'm saying like he he does actual change he fit he and he kept it here
00:50:23.440
right he kept it yeah he kept it imagine how many jobs he created through that man there's there's
00:50:29.600
i want to say there's at least 6 000 employees in maryland height right now just from him you know
00:50:35.060
i'm saying so it's like the real successful people you're not gonna hear them get on those like
00:50:38.960
you're not gonna hear dave stewart say anything's holding them back that's what my
00:50:43.560
issue is it's like but i gotta hear lebron james tell me that there's something dude it drives me
00:50:47.620
insane no fucking sense bro you're fucking one of the richest dudes in the fucking world
00:50:51.860
it literally drives me insane why is he because he fucking worked art right right it's the i call
00:51:00.480
them they think that they're gatekeepers most of the people that tell you there's something in this
00:51:04.280
country is holding you back the people that are plastered and overly perpetuated on media they push
00:51:08.680
that narrative that message does anybody ever ask these people are successful why are they speaking
00:51:14.880
death over me right telling me that there's something that holds me back nothing holds me
00:51:19.460
back these people are successful and i when people i argue with them i said well are you successful
00:51:24.720
yeah but my but but you're an anomaly and an antidote and an exception to the outlier but i'm like
00:51:30.800
your your story and what you did you can't speak for the totality you can't speak for everybody
00:51:35.920
but i'm like but how are you going to speak for everybody to say that something holds them back
00:51:39.660
well craig isn't anybody who's who's successful in anomaly you know i'm saying like isn't isn't that
00:51:46.820
isn't that the point right the point is it's fucking hard for everybody it is yeah and like i was
00:51:52.100
telling you i'm an anomaly amongst my fucking friends and network and i mean why because i fucking
00:51:57.380
haven't taken a motherfucking day off in fucking 23 years you sacrifice yeah maybe you didn't go to
00:52:03.020
that party no you didn't do that drug it was an investment you you risk yeah you you did the
00:52:08.880
necessary things you never quit right could other people at the time did what you guys did they quit
00:52:14.400
but they quit yeah it's the same thing with me i went to prison but i mean i don't i don't i don't
00:52:19.400
see how that's a race thing it's not a race thing yeah it's it's like i was telling you um when you're
00:52:24.940
born you're born looking like your mother and your father but you're gonna die looking like the
00:52:28.620
decisions that you make you're gonna die with looking like the decisions that you make so are
00:52:34.180
you out there being a thug in the street and you die that way that's that's gonna paint based off
00:52:39.380
the decisions that you make or were you a philanthropist and you made yourself extremely
00:52:43.720
successful and you donated and gave to charities and you tried to make a difference in the way that
00:52:49.040
you wanted to make a difference or maybe you just never gave up and you did something amazing or
00:52:53.620
you invented something or you are a great artist or a poet or an actress whatever it is right and it
00:53:00.220
always goes down to your decision decisions literally determine your outcome it's it's not a
00:53:06.120
color thing me going to prison was not because of my color it was my decision me being having the
00:53:11.800
success that i have now being in business it's not because of color it's the decisions right it goes
00:53:17.080
back the universal principle of success does not care about what color you are it's the decisions
00:53:22.780
that you make daily over a course of time period you can't argue with me you sit bring me somebody
00:53:29.780
that you feel is something's holding back that there's something in the system let's dig into
00:53:34.100
their life let me see their bank account let me see their daily uh activity what what are they
00:53:39.500
deciding to do with what's their spending habits what's their spending what's their earning habits did
00:53:43.160
they pick up a book did they listen to a podcast did they get try to apply and go to college or go
00:53:49.000
into the military or did they purchase a program something that's going to further educate them
00:53:54.280
are they trying to learn a skill all we have to do is dig into anybody's life it's not a white or black
00:54:00.020
thing you can make dumb decisions like i was telling you and if you today started making dumb decisions
00:54:06.020
and i'm just going to drink and i'm stressed or whatever and you started just frivolously spending
00:54:11.820
and making poor leadership decisions believe me your business is going to start tanking over time
00:54:17.600
it's like the the the the water fountain that drips the doop doop and over time before you know it your
00:54:24.500
water bill is like five hundred dollars you know what i mean life is the same way your decisions
00:54:30.980
what do they call it the slight edge effect oh yeah the compounding interest right yeah your daily
00:54:37.240
decisions compound whether they're positive decisions or negative decisions they compound
00:54:42.660
using me do you know how many people come home from prison if we use the statistics it's not a white
00:54:50.380
or black thing or some system it's their decisions i could have they could have made decisions like me
00:54:55.960
which some do and they make like completely inspire people and turn things around or they can go back
00:55:03.140
to the same things that put them into prison in the first place so it's decisions it's decisions
00:55:09.380
it's decisions and it's just unfortunate i think people need like i was telling you people need to
00:55:15.440
learn how to win again they don't know how to win but i can tell you how you can win yeah you want to
00:55:20.220
know how you can win dj they need to listen to real as fuck you know what i mean that's a plug for
00:55:26.060
your ass dude let me ask you this like let's just say you know because we get a lot of younger young
00:55:31.600
bucks listening you know what i'm saying like people who are 16 17 18 um let's just say that
00:55:38.780
we've got some of these these black and brown listeners right now who are young and they've been
00:55:43.960
told uh hey man you ain't gonna be shit you know it's gonna it's gonna be 10 times harder for you
00:55:49.920
than it is for everybody else etc etc etc all the shit and what what would you say to that person
00:55:55.240
uh you gotta know how you gotta stand on what you want for yourself right you have to be able to
00:56:05.080
drown out the noise and understand it doesn't matter what color you are everybody is faced with
00:56:10.720
challenges right everybody's faced with things that they have to overcome like i was telling you guys
00:56:16.660
earlier um i love the quote i got this quote from jim rome right one of the best motivational speakers
00:56:22.560
that out there he passed away he was one of the greats he said life and business are like the
00:56:27.880
changing seasons right you're gonna go through winter spring summers and falls throughout your
00:56:33.720
whole entire life so with that noise with that what you have to decipher out of right things that
00:56:39.820
people may be trying to tell you oh you can't do this or oh you can't do that and you can't do this
00:56:44.780
because of that or you don't what makes you think you can do that use that as a fuel
00:56:48.880
to push you on i promise you man i promise you that
00:56:54.300
life will reward you for not giving up and working and applying yourself over and over and
00:57:01.960
just knowing it's going to happen for you it will man it will sometimes let's say you want to make
00:57:07.960
it into the nba not everybody makes it into the nba but through your hard work it's like you can
00:57:12.700
laterally pivot to the same place that you wanted to be in right you know what i mean it's just weird
00:57:18.020
how it works that way so what i would tell them is just never give up learn to drown out the noise
00:57:22.840
and use those things that people say that you can't do as fuel to keep going forward when you
00:57:28.880
look at pivots because you know you look at a lot of you know rags to riches stories and there's there's
00:57:33.460
a moment right you go to you look at a drug addict who switches and turns your life around you look at
00:57:37.360
somebody who goes to prison and turns their life around there's usually rock bottom yeah like rock
00:57:41.600
bottom that creates the pivot for you when was rock bottom like what was it when you walked in you know with
00:57:47.480
your tote or was there a moment in prison where you had that experience where it was like
00:57:51.520
all right man i ain't doing this shit no more um prison definitely made me feel like man i've hit rock
00:57:58.500
bottom and then since i've been home released from prison i've had other rock bottom moments like
00:58:05.940
sleeping in my car right i used to work at a gym and literally would sleep behind the gym in my car that
00:58:11.760
was like a rock bottom moment on people's couches and i just always knew this is how it is right now
00:58:19.980
but i know it's going to change for me i'm just going to keep doing the right thing i'm just going
00:58:25.960
to keep doing the right thing and it i mean it's led and opened up so many doors for me and uh i got so
00:58:32.660
much more to give to people i i literally want to dedicate my life to just trying to get people to
00:58:39.120
understand like you just got to keep yes sir it gets dark sometimes well i think you know you you've
00:58:45.780
led into this and there's you know there's a lot of people here today so i've just been trying to
00:58:49.120
to listen and then apply and you talk about you know the persistency of going back and fighting that
00:58:52.800
guy right like keep showing up and i think a lot of that plays back into life and success is you know
00:58:58.280
the first couple years of the first couple challenges man it ain't gonna be fun but you're gonna
00:59:02.860
have to keep getting back up you're gonna have to keep showing up and you're gonna have to keep
00:59:05.720
executing and i think in that a lot of times the young bucks as andrew talks about they get lost
00:59:09.860
in that first part of the process because they don't see success after two weeks or two months
00:59:13.600
or even shit even two years right you're gonna have to shovel shit for two years to understand it
00:59:17.880
like all right now i've earned the right to get to the next level i think consistency in in executing
00:59:23.140
that discipline to the process is huge right for the young guy and i you know when you start to see
00:59:27.940
the successful habits around people who have changed their life there's a moment right a pivot like
00:59:33.100
for me my relationship's a big thing and there's a pivot that says i'm not doing this shit anymore
00:59:36.960
and i'm going to execute and move forward and then there's that same exact uh parallel in success like
00:59:43.120
man i'm not doing this shit anymore i'm going to fucking execute i'm going to eliminate my own
00:59:46.920
excuses i'm going to show up every motherfucking day and i'm at least going to give myself the best
00:59:51.040
motherfucking shot that i can to win and it's and it's to the principles that you've talked about
00:59:55.240
over and over again it's removing your own excuses understanding you got to take action or uh take
00:59:59.700
ownership of your own actions and execute day in there's a little voice that we all have
01:00:05.940
right everybody has like a bitch assness to it oh yeah you know what i mean there's a little voice
01:00:12.120
he's a motherfucker isn't he and he's a negotiator it's like um i don't know if you guys ever heard
01:00:18.600
the analogy which wolf are you feeding right which one are you feeding there's a little voice that's
01:00:25.240
telling you like dude you're fucking being lazy man come on you know you could have did more you
01:00:31.020
fucking slept half the day away you're being lazy come on man you could have did more in the day you're
01:00:37.060
bullshitting you said you were going to do that you put it off for a whole week so it's like at some
01:00:42.560
point you gotta look yourself in the mirror and say i'm sick and tired of being sick and tired of
01:00:47.500
being sick and tired and it's like the the dog won't get up off the nail until it's they actually
01:00:53.580
feel the pain so sometimes you do need to smack your face on the ground to realize i don't want
01:01:00.360
to live like this no more like i i need to do something i'm tired of living this way there's no
01:01:06.160
way that this is going to be my life you know what i mean you got to refuse to accept it but don't don't
01:01:12.100
be a little bitch ass no it's not it's not throwing a temper tantrum it's it's going out and taking
01:01:17.920
productive steps to fix a situation exactly yeah and that takes time that takes time you know a lot
01:01:24.000
of people want to go out and fix their life in one day that bro that's not gonna happen it's it's
01:01:28.720
consistently making the right decisions over time thanks right it's um i think and i'm not trying to
01:01:37.720
get too mystical on you guys i think we don't understand time right we look at time and oh it's
01:01:43.000
an urgency oh shit six years of my life away doing nothing i always tell people like i was released
01:01:50.920
in 2009 if you would have asked me in 2009 i would see myself here today right now on this podcast with
01:02:00.080
some very successful people speaking and telling my story i couldn't make the mental leap if you would
01:02:05.000
have asked me five years from when i was released hey you see yourself opening your own gym literally
01:02:11.460
building it from the dirt i couldn't make the mental leap man you got to realize i was just fresh out of
01:02:16.960
prison like man i'm just happy to be released yeah you literally can't make a mental leap so it doesn't
01:02:23.680
matter where wherever you are in your life right you you cannot make a mental leap you don't know
01:02:30.280
where you're going to be five years ten years from now you just have to know i'm going to do the right
01:02:35.120
thing i'm going to keep working my ass off i know what i want and i'm just going to by any means
01:02:40.460
necessary i'm going to try to figure it out and you're going to fail and you're going to have to
01:02:44.820
overcome and you're going to have little wins that confirm to you you're on the right path keep going
01:02:50.960
and along the way you're going to meet great people you're going to be good people and people are
01:02:56.500
going to help you people are going to see you're trying to help yourself right and i think to the
01:03:01.660
young listeners like they need to understand that like don't beat yourself up so much don't be so hard
01:03:08.400
on yourself you're young some of these people are what 19 20 21 you're young like i came home at 25
01:03:15.200
man i just turned 37 my life is i feel like man my life is just beginning so now that i look at my life
01:03:21.620
i don't look at it it's so overwhelming like i got time like look how much i've accomplished in
01:03:26.920
within just 10 years yeah you know what i mean so like you can't make the mental leap you just know
01:03:32.320
let me apply myself let me listen to the podcast let me listen to the people that are successful
01:03:37.880
what can i learn from them let me apply myself let me listen to that voice that's saying hey you're
01:03:43.300
being a bitch assness you know you're being lazy stop being stop being entitled stop complaining
01:03:49.180
let me just work my ass off and figure it out and then one day you look up and you're like
01:03:54.360
it's funny i tell my homeboy tofer right number one billboard song he's badass he's a badass he's got
01:04:01.120
the patriot song right tofer was a major influence with me and starting to speak out and tell my story
01:04:07.640
i always tell him like dude how now how the hell did i get here right and we laugh about it but really
01:04:14.500
like i i just wish it for everybody and it will happen for you there people have so much greatness
01:04:20.380
and ability in them they just have to understand hey be patient come from a gratitude standpoint
01:04:27.500
but also have urgency with the two and in your urgency you're applying yourself and man one day
01:04:33.280
you'll look up and you'll be like man how did i get here you know what i mean yeah of course i think
01:04:39.080
it's it's hard though especially when you're young man and this is a thing is like retrospective time
01:04:43.260
goes so fast you know what i mean i'm 40 at 35 it seems like fuck man it was yesterday
01:04:47.100
but when you're 20 you think 25 is like light years away and 25 to 30 is light years away you're like
01:04:54.380
dude i can't do that for five fucking years and when you're 40 you look back and think fuck i wish
01:04:58.000
i had done that five years ago yeah and that that switch is so like you have to learn time's going
01:05:02.980
either way well you can't control it right and i think the only thing you can't control your actions
01:05:06.880
that happen in those time frames right the days the minutes the decisions and learning that that
01:05:12.340
compounding interest to the slide edge that we talk about you know that compounding interest over
01:05:17.080
time is your biggest fucking opportunity and the one that most people miss and that's the that's the
01:05:21.780
thing that you know i wish i could give them a younger version of myself right because we always have
01:05:24.960
like these little sprint modes you you do great for 90 days what happens you great for 120 you know
01:05:30.100
what happens to be great for 280 360 you know and you start looking back at time and think fuck man i wish i
01:05:34.940
had done that 10 years ago and now it's like fuck i can't wait five years and you still you never get
01:05:40.120
around it but the best time to start any changes today right now you know and understanding that
01:05:44.380
you're not different we all have the same time the sun rises and sunsets whether you want it to or not
01:05:49.720
doesn't fucking matter the wind's gonna fucking blow the storm's gonna fucking come what you do
01:05:54.080
today matters for you not for anybody else because the world don't give a fuck yeah and that's the
01:05:58.400
difference right like we want to be victimized and this is a little little wolf thing right you want
01:06:03.200
to you're your own best salesperson you victimize yourself as to why you can't yeah my situation's a
01:06:07.700
little bit different well it's a little bit different excuses you're right motherfucker but
01:06:11.160
so is the guy from nigeria right or so is the guy from india from haiti or brazil but yeah but you
01:06:18.880
know what i'm saying it's like you want to talk about victim well dude we're talking about basic
01:06:22.700
shit here i mean this is personal responsibility one-on-one it's really fucking simple and this
01:06:27.440
country was founded upon the idea of creating a pathway for anybody to achieve wealth and prosperity
01:06:37.060
if they decide they want to trade parts of their life for that and you know people argue well
01:06:43.240
founded by white people who own slaves yeah it was but some things have happened since then that have
01:06:48.260
changed the fucking game okay we've had we had a uh you know how many hundreds of thousands of white
01:06:54.700
men die in the civil war to create this scenario one thing that pissed me off about this whole black
01:06:59.480
lives matter shit that went down was uh you know when they tore down the statue of ulysses s grant that
01:07:05.520
really irritated the fuck out of me bro because ulysses s grant was a great fucking american and
01:07:11.500
yes he was white but you know what else he was also the guy who went out and fucking freed the
01:07:17.480
slaves on the fucking ground physically yes like he was the general that led the fucking way and
01:07:22.980
without him we fuck who knows what would happen yeah and they're tearing out they're like dude we have
01:07:27.900
such a we have such a poor understanding of what this country is really supposed to be because of the
01:07:36.180
education system and the things that are taught right now uh by quite honestly by people who haven't
01:07:42.980
ever fucking done anything okay you got a bunch of fucking people and i'm talking about these teachers
01:07:49.440
who haven't done shit all right they've got went and got a fucking degree and you motherfuckers
01:07:54.420
come at me all you want i don't give a fuck they went out got a fucking degree went in the fucking
01:07:59.240
school system taught everybody their shortcomings about how they didn't fucking achieve their shit
01:08:05.060
and now we got this whole generation of people that don't understand what america's about
01:08:08.980
and that's very frustrating and if we would just you know if we would just because dude there's plenty
01:08:16.320
of people that know this shit it's just nobody's saying it and one of the things that you were saying
01:08:21.140
a minute ago you know about topher encouraging you to speak up what what is it like why are people
01:08:28.000
so afraid right now to fucking say what they know because dude i could tell you from experience of what
01:08:36.720
i observed night the majority of motherfuckers out there are jiving with what we're fucking saying
01:08:42.520
they're saying yeah yeah fuck yeah yeah yeah and then they go out in public and they're and they hear
01:08:48.140
this they go with the collective they hear this crazy fucking bullshit from the karen right or whoever
01:08:54.100
and they're like well yeah i could see that no motherfucker dude believe what you believe and
01:09:02.440
fucking speak for that the reason that we are where we are in this country right now is because
01:09:07.240
of the quote-unquote silent majority your motherfuckers that's what our problem is bro we need to stop
01:09:14.080
being silent that's right they you guys all believe and agree with these things that we're
01:09:18.080
talking about that are very basic you're too fucking weak to stand up and say no i fucking believe that
01:09:23.320
and what you're doing is letting all the motherfuckers who are out there fighting for the shit you believe
01:09:27.220
take all the motherfucking arrows eventually there won't be nobody left take those fucking arrows
01:09:31.560
and if everybody fucking stand bro me too and if we fucking all stand up together and say no dude fuck you
01:09:38.100
then they could fuck they could all fuck off it together i mean that's very simple there's a saying
01:09:43.400
there's a saying you guys can look the saying up i apologize i can't quote the person that said it
01:09:49.120
there's a saying that says there are many things that i believe that i should not speak on
01:09:53.620
but i should never ever speak on things that i don't believe in there is a lot of things going on
01:09:59.240
in our country right now that they are forcing and overly perpetuating on media
01:10:04.300
people that they think are gatekeepers yeah they're constantly drilling it in you to make you
01:10:09.680
think that it's real and you to believe that that's what's going on to get you to say
01:10:14.440
what you truly don't believe in yeah that your values as a man or a woman or your values as a man of
01:10:20.860
god oh that's evil woman of god it's evil so you should never ever ever speak on things that you do
01:10:27.680
not believe in yeah ever stand on your values man if you're a christian if you're a man or woman
01:10:34.200
of god stand on it yeah stand on your values it's okay you know it's wrong yeah stand on it speak
01:10:39.700
out because this is this is why we're where we are now in our country we are where we nobody
01:10:44.020
no more silent majority nobody wants to speak up bro but here's the thing if everybody stood up
01:10:50.180
nobody takes the heat right they just get to go fuck off we get the heat now yeah
01:10:54.840
if we go back in history when the guys oh they're coming the boats are coming the british are coming
01:11:01.480
like if nobody started speaking out nobody came to get what dude where would the country be
01:11:06.540
you know what i mean would we even be free but what what kind of country would we have
01:11:10.900
we'd be calling it takes people to have courage to stand up and speak out
01:11:15.580
greg don't you know it's 2021 bro all you do is you write that shit in a little black box on
01:11:19.580
your instagram you put your name underneath it you steal a quote
01:11:21.920
that's craig's quote famous man you're the most famous motherfucker like wow man he's so smart
01:11:29.700
what i thought you were going to say and i don't know if i can't remember if it was ben
01:11:34.340
benjamin franklin or one of the other founders but he said
01:11:37.080
we um we must all hang together or we will hang individually absolutely you know dude i i it's just
01:11:46.040
frustrating for me man because like i see all these people with all this potential of all different
01:11:52.360
races and all different colors and i see this country with the potential that it has and we're
01:11:57.820
literally we like we are literally like it's hard for me to even fucking grasp this concept we are
01:12:05.240
literally judging people off of like they're like how much time you spend the sun today oh you got a
01:12:12.600
little too dark fuck you like dude it doesn't make any fucking sense i'm darker than half the
01:12:17.300
black guys we got here just from june to like august three months out of the year no real real
01:12:24.880
shit dude like it doesn't make any fucking sense well now they're telling you that we're supposed to
01:12:29.280
because like you guys remember like oh i don't see color right like you shouldn't see color but now
01:12:33.280
they're telling no no you should be seeing color you're supposed to see i'm like it doesn't make
01:12:37.300
sense like why what was the civil rights movement about not compartmentalizing people off color
01:12:42.060
no it's like judging people off it's weird politics gotta go like look it's crazy look we
01:12:47.420
will never win in this country with identity politics and oh identity politics is driving
01:12:51.620
people pushing it know that that's why they're pushing it so they don't want us no dude we have
01:12:55.800
a bunch of old motherfuckers by the way most of them are fucking white okay we're holding on to
01:13:01.640
power because uh by manipulating a certain segments of the population and believing shit that isn't
01:13:07.300
actually true and until we all decide hey fuck all you old motherfuckers have been in this system
01:13:11.920
for the last fucking 40 years who haven't done shit we're not going to move forward we got to
01:13:17.780
have young leadership who sees the world as young people see it and and i'm not talking about 20
01:13:23.540
year olds i'm talking about guys our age right who who have perspective and have uh a grasp on the
01:13:31.340
real situation have experienced things in real life not this fucking these 20 year old fucking crazy
01:13:38.480
fox who don't know shit they've never had to go through shit like bro how stupid did you think
01:13:44.040
you were when you were 20 oh dude can you imagine me too my mindset trying to run me too bro like
01:13:50.520
my girlfriend she's like man imagine if we would have met 10 years i was like no no no yeah
01:13:55.240
i was a complete asshole i think we can all say that it's been long yeah i don't think you want
01:14:01.420
to meet me then you know what i mean yeah you would have had a good night
01:14:08.360
damn man hey man this is real as fuck i got no comment i'm all the smart person here
01:14:28.560
he just set himself up in front of the fucking crosshairs
01:14:32.460
yeah yeah next topic yeah well for what it's worth let me throw this out there 1920 there were
01:14:41.460
roughly 20 000 kkk members who who marched on washington from 20 1920 to 1930 you had roughly
01:14:49.080
at least seven states in the midwest and the south where if you had any sort of political
01:14:54.420
aspirations you had to be a member of the kkk in the 60s you had little black boys little black girls
01:15:00.540
who would literally be in in sunday school and they get firebombed okay so i'm a history nerd i've
01:15:08.500
read a lot of american history trying to get a sense of our country which is important to note dude that
01:15:12.760
wasn't that long right it wasn't that long ago like dude look to say that racism is fucking fake or
01:15:18.880
this not no that's not true but to say it's also an entire group of people black people think this
01:15:25.060
white people think this that's fucking bullshit too we got racist motherfuckers on both sides
01:15:31.020
absolutely on both sides okay and people say well white skin can never be oppressed bullshit
01:15:37.020
there's a history of white slavery that goes back a million fucking years okay but you motherfuckers
01:15:44.060
don't know your history and i'm not going to teach it to you so we can just agree to that you're an
01:15:48.060
disagree all right no no it's true we can agree that you don't know shit it's it's so true um i
01:15:53.820
studied african history when i was in prison yeah there's literally journals of white folks i used
01:15:59.480
to look around and say well you know black folks run everything yeah that's right people need to know
01:16:04.000
their history right like seriously our history does not and that doesn't like it doesn't start with
01:16:08.740
slavery like we have so much more history yeah thousands of years right yeah thousands and bro there's a
01:16:14.320
there's hit there's all kinds of different dude this is this comes back to this isn't race bro people
01:16:20.160
who say this is race they are fundamentally fucking stupid they're stupid because if you can't look past
01:16:26.640
someone's fucking skin tone what's that say about you in any regard whether you're looking at white
01:16:32.000
people or black people or fucking any people like i just can't imagine how people live their life just
01:16:37.080
saying oh man fucking andy's white and that's why he's successful because he's white and i'm black i just
01:16:44.000
i can't live my life that well i never get that way i've never gotten that from a black person one
01:16:49.320
fucking time i've gotten that one million times from white liberals yeah oh my god and i've never
01:16:54.980
got a black person that says that to me bon did you ever read the book a people's history i think it's
01:16:59.300
by howard zinn it's on my list because i think isn't that the left-leaning take it's a left-leaning take
01:17:05.300
but man does he write it's it's a good book i'll have to check it out it's good to read both sides
01:17:10.740
oh absolutely no no no and that's that's what i wanted you said you're a history buff so i said
01:17:14.560
man absolutely thank you for the recommendations but to the point that i i was making you look at
01:17:21.840
the history of our country and and two things should happen and it should be a smack down to to both the
01:17:27.920
right and the left you should look at what happened to black people and i do think that there should be
01:17:33.560
a moment where any white person in america reads that stuff and goes crap that is terrible some
01:17:41.420
fucked up shit that is terrible i don't think like and be genuinely sad that that happened but the flip
01:17:46.660
side is also true is to me that that if any person today studies that stuff and sees just how horrible
01:17:54.460
this stuff really was to compare your modern struggles to what those people went through
01:18:02.300
you talk about offensive that is all it's a pill that comes that comes from the weakness of our
01:18:09.360
fucking society yeah okay i talk about this all the time these motherfuckers that are 25 and under
01:18:14.680
ever had to do shit they got fucking no hardship they've been through no no real conflict they've
01:18:20.600
had no 9-11 or any unifying event happen in their life they don't understand real evil bro they
01:18:27.140
am they suffer from an embarrassment of motherfucking riches dude they all got a two thousand dollar
01:18:32.600
they're all spoiled that's right they got a two thousand dollar computer a thousand dollar iphone this
01:18:38.060
that running water toilets food on call grub hub fuck they got fucking everything comes right to the
01:18:45.200
door and we're all talking about how fucked up our shit is bro the truth is most of these people are so
01:18:50.600
fucking weak they gotta make up shit to be mad about that's real as fuck we're gonna be talk about
01:18:56.220
real okay so go to fucking somalia go to fucking go broaden your horizon that's right go to fucking
01:19:03.040
uh some of the poor countries in asia go to india and we'll talk about how how racist and how fucked up
01:19:09.740
you feel our country is after you come back that's absolutely like what you were saying i don't i think
01:19:16.340
white folks in america they know the things that happened in slavery was it's horrific it's fucked
01:19:22.340
up but again to compare your today to previous generations like obama their messiah says it's a
01:19:29.580
pale period at the end of the day the narratives that's going on in our country the anti-white the
01:19:35.960
anti-american the victimhood narratives amongst many other narratives at the end of the day right i'm not
01:19:44.000
a bible thumper right and you can quote me on this people need to find healing in their heart
01:19:50.580
right they do they need to find the healing in their heart there's a lot of anger hatred and resentment
01:19:55.340
running rampant in our country right if you're a man of god or if you're a woman of god right i'm a
01:20:01.800
christian if you stand on your belief as a christian our god jesus he's he's a forgiven god right second
01:20:08.840
corinthians chapter 5 17 be anyone in christ is a new creation be all things pass away that's a
01:20:15.580
forgiving god your today is not the previous generations yes it was horrific yes you're
01:20:21.600
hearing this constantly beating into your head but at the end of the day you're still my brother
01:20:26.220
you're an american right dj's my brother andy all of us everybody's in here is my brother
01:20:32.040
right you got to find if you're angry about the history you have to find healing in your heart if you
01:20:37.480
had something bias happen to you you felt like you had some racist situation to happen to you and
01:20:43.180
somebody was an asshole or a jerk to you you have to find healing in your heart forgiveness in your
01:20:48.140
heart right not everybody is that way period and i think that it societal wise culture wise in america
01:20:54.600
people just need to find healing in their heart period they got to find the forgiveness in the heart
01:20:58.920
you can't go around living your life with anger hatred and resentment because the same wall that
01:21:04.020
you put up to keep out uh possibly uh your unhappiness is the same wall that keeps out
01:21:10.160
your blessing as well and it keeps in your frustration and you you drown frustration in
01:21:15.020
you're drowning it and it prohibits you from progressively moving forward so yeah i mean that's
01:21:20.520
where i stand with it so absolutely i feel like what you're talking about there was this black pastor
01:21:25.040
in the 1960s who kind of said something similar what was his name i forget malcolm no no okay but
01:21:32.680
malcolm in his last days he did he did malcolm melo realized like oh malcolm went to the middle he's a
01:21:39.060
great example i'm actually a fan of a lot of his shit because at the end of his journey of his days
01:21:44.120
he started figuring out that a lot of the things that he believed were not actually true and he was
01:21:49.040
man enough to say so yep and then actually got took out and then actually teach yeah that's right
01:21:53.940
he started teaching the truth and then he was gone yeah and he went on his homage and he realized
01:21:58.620
that's why lebron james you got to read more than the first page motherfucker lebron james ain't reading
01:22:02.760
that damn no shit we got we got 15 fucking videos of him on the first page bro like so what would you
01:22:10.040
like about the book maybe you wouldn't be the most hated player in the nba what would you like about
01:22:15.060
the book james uh the front page it was a good book well let let's be let's be real about lebron
01:22:21.920
james i mean let's be real about what's motivating this all he knows money he knows well that and he
01:22:26.600
knows bro he he he listen we're gonna wear my 10-4 hat this motherfucker oh shit yeah this
01:22:33.120
motherfucker that motherfucker earns his money from one of the biggest fucking ccp companies in the
01:22:38.900
fucking planet which happens to be fucking nike okay they support and our they sell so much
01:22:44.600
merchandise i believe they actually sell more merchandise in china than they do in the american
01:22:49.360
in american marketplace this here is the problem so he's getting pressure from a company to take a
01:22:56.580
role that he is not equipped to fucking have that's should be pretty obvious to anybody he's not equipped
01:23:02.320
to have you could put the glasses on you can grow the beard you could do the whole look carry around
01:23:07.280
with the book motherfucker that don't make you nothing you still don't know what the fuck you're
01:23:11.320
talking about and and that man has been more damaging to the culture of america in the last
01:23:16.360
fucking 12 months than i think any other fucking high profile person because of the because of the
01:23:21.600
things he said you know when there was a shooting in memphis i think it was and he went out and said
01:23:26.340
oh you're next to the cop oh that oh dude and no repercussion no and then not only that bro yeah
01:23:31.160
no shit you got heat for a day right he heard up and retracted in bro it's like man can you imagine
01:23:36.240
look dude here's the thing these dudes these dudes don't understand the damage they're doing
01:23:41.820
they just don't they have influence yes and they and it's if you compare lebron james to jordan
01:23:47.500
yeah jordan is like i mean one of the the greats man yeah right lebron james they were consider one
01:23:54.580
of the greats does he do a lot of great things absolutely yeah but look he's look at the shit he's
01:23:59.420
doing now dude that's my point though i think i think he woke up and realized you know what
01:24:03.520
i'm always going to be runner up to the goat scratch that i'm always going to be second runner
01:24:08.620
up to the goat because the first runner up is kobe yep so i've got to make a name for myself
01:24:13.180
i don't think that's what it is at all you don't think so i think i think it's about pay dude i think
01:24:18.320
it's a green thing i think all the bad shit in this world that we have going on right now
01:24:21.960
comes down to money it really does and as much as i'm a proponent for having money i've always said
01:24:27.460
that you're not supposed to love it okay right uh so i mean i do love it but love it more than
01:24:34.320
other things right so the thing is is that we have a scenario now if you really like dude here's the
01:24:41.520
thing and this is where i think a lot of people are really disconnected they're they're in the battle
01:24:47.340
right like they're on the they're they're on the internet and on facebook and they're arguing with
01:24:51.300
each other fuck you no fuck you ezekiel right like bro we're just saying all this shit online
01:24:58.260
each other but if you look at like if you remove yourself from this and you start to rise above and
01:25:04.900
look down on it and you're like all right what's really going on here what we really see is a bunch
01:25:10.080
of people who profit from our division on the ground floor okay and those motherfuckers are the
01:25:16.740
ones sending these messages down the pipe that keep us divided and we have to all stop and say
01:25:23.600
that's not my enemy that guy i'm arguing with online that's not my fucking enemy the people who
01:25:29.280
taught him to think like that and the people who taught me to get involved with this those are the
01:25:35.340
motherfucking enemies those are the people that keep harmony from happening they keep progress from
01:25:40.360
happening and they keep us fulfilling the ideal of america from actually happening which is a place
01:25:47.980
of equal opportunity not equal result okay so what does that mean that means that you if you want more
01:25:56.520
than what you got guess what you got to do you got to go fucking do shit you got to work you're gonna
01:26:01.580
have to make investments in your future you're gonna have to do things that your homies and your
01:26:06.100
bros and this and that aren't willing to do that's a fact so we have to get out of the mindset
01:26:12.420
of being triggered when we talk about personal responsibility you know like a lot of these people
01:26:18.480
now are mad when you start talking about taking uh control of your life and being personally
01:26:24.440
responsible why are they so mad well they're mad because they don't want to have to do that shit
01:26:29.480
and they think that if they argue loud enough and strong enough and vocal enough that eventually
01:26:34.840
they're going to get whatever the fuck they want and i'm here to tell you you won't you'll spend
01:26:38.880
your whole life beating on a fucking pot that doesn't ever pay off shit so you really have a
01:26:44.540
choice to make dude we could like here this is the bottom line of everything whether you're black
01:26:48.840
brown yellow i don't care red it doesn't matter i don't give a fuck no matter what you are you have
01:26:53.440
a choice your choice is this complain complain complain bitch bitch bitch make post after post
01:26:59.680
post after post and maybe get some attention all right or shut the fuck up and go out and be an
01:27:05.800
example of what it looks like to fucking win and actually make a difference because i'm going to
01:27:10.280
tell you you motherfuckers out there is beating that drum you're going to be beating that drum your
01:27:15.900
whole life and the reality of this country will never change it will always be the same people who
01:27:21.880
work will create something people who create will get paid that's it and it doesn't matter what
01:27:28.280
color you are it doesn't matter where you come from it doesn't matter what you're do do do some
01:27:33.560
of us come from harder situations absolutely no one's saying that but what we are saying is that
01:27:39.460
regardless of how hard your situation is the decisions to make the opportunity to make better
01:27:45.260
decisions for your future and your family and your future family that doesn't even exist yet
01:27:49.840
are still open and free to everybody and that's a fact that is a true statement it's a factual
01:27:55.700
statement and if you guys decide to think that's bullshit and you want to spend your whole life
01:28:01.540
being a fucking victim then cool but you will never win that way and and that's really what i just want
01:28:08.520
you to know i want you to hear it from me because 20 years from now you're going to go back you're
01:28:12.040
going to remember you're going to say fuck that that dude that dude was right yeah right and i would
01:28:17.760
rather you start now then start then because the truth the reality of life hits us no matter what
01:28:25.960
at some point in time all of these motherfuckers beating this drum that that is not true that is
01:28:32.380
that is not real they are going to be confronted with the truth and for a lot of those people it's
01:28:37.400
going to be on their deathbed it's going to be when they're when it's too late when they've got cancer
01:28:42.020
or they've got sick or they're getting ready to die and they're going to say fuck i didn't do shit
01:28:47.900
all i did was beat this fucking drum i didn't make a change for nothing because at the end of that day
01:28:53.460
whether it be 50 years from now or fucking two years from now the world is still going to be the same
01:28:59.440
the people who do the work create they get paid and win and become the influencers of the world and
01:29:05.380
by the way that's in every country whether it's socialist communist or fucking anything
01:29:09.920
it's just reality people who want to win who they will make a way they will drive and drag themselves
01:29:16.580
across a hundred miles of broken fucking glass to do so and if you're willing to do that you'll win
01:29:22.520
if you're not i don't care what color you are you could be white oh you could be the whitest
01:29:27.220
motherfucker in the world you're still gonna fucking lose so we have to come to an understanding
01:29:31.960
as a culture that this is reality all right and what i want and the reason i'm vocal about these
01:29:38.120
things is for a couple reasons one i love this country this country is the only country in the
01:29:44.680
world that makes it truly available to every single citizen other places you have to try much harder to
01:29:52.320
get success to become where you are two i i fucking believe that humans are humans i don't care what
01:29:59.620
how much of a tan you got because of where your ancestors it's it's ridiculous statement it's dude it's
01:30:07.480
such a ridiculous topic it is a ridiculous topic if we want to talk about something real let's talk
01:30:12.180
about the socioeconomic disparities in those neighborhoods that are predominantly black let's
01:30:18.400
talk about fixing the education system so that some of these black children and brown children can
01:30:23.980
now believe that they can achieve things not be told that they can't achieve things okay we want to
01:30:29.860
fix things let's fix the crime rate in our cities let's stop killing each other because of fucking
01:30:36.220
shit we saw on music video or tv like dude the change that needs to happen in this world comes
01:30:42.440
from us and i'm not just saying this to black folks or white folks or anybody i'm saying this to any
01:30:47.580
motherfucker who's listening if you want the world to be a better place if you want the world to become
01:30:52.500
the the the america that it should be that's a leadership role that all of us are obligated to
01:30:58.760
every single one of us and that comes and that's by taking personal responsibility for ourselves our
01:31:04.320
actions our thoughts our words and what we say are we going to say wrong things sometimes yeah we're
01:31:10.480
gonna you know what that's the reality sometimes i say dumb shit sometimes craig you're going to say
01:31:16.920
dumb shit sometimes vaughn you well a lot of times good job you've perfected it but my point i'm gonna
01:31:24.720
back it up with scripture yeah my point is guys is that we're all human and we all make mistakes
01:31:29.180
and one of the things that you know this whole scenario of of of our cultural situation that
01:31:39.120
we have here in america whether it be covid or fucking masks or the racial things or all of these
01:31:46.840
things right one of the biggest things i've learned in the last year is that all of this shit is laid out
01:31:53.140
in the bible like it's really laid out like hey dude uh this is real simple be kind to people
01:31:59.500
treat people how you want to be treated you know pay honor to the father of god by being the best
01:32:06.040
person that you can be are you meant to be perfect no you're not that's where you said stop beating
01:32:11.080
yourself up that's that's a valuable that's a valuable trait but also it's not just stop beating
01:32:16.740
yourself up stop giving yourself all the fucking slacks stop letting yourself off the hook every
01:32:21.780
fucking time because that's an equally big problem right like we got people who are too hard on
01:32:26.560
themselves and then go down the drain and then we got people who are uh too easy on themselves and
01:32:31.680
they go to the same place right so we listen guys we all have to do a better job and for this to
01:32:39.540
actually fix itself and to heal which i believe i believe that's what everybody wants for that's on
01:32:45.320
the ground level the people up here when you get up here and look down on it they don't want that
01:32:49.780
shit but us the regular people fuck dude i don't want to fucking fight with people i don't want to
01:32:55.500
argue with people i don't want to hear i don't want to i want to dude we we need to be fucking
01:32:59.940
citizens of this country and and good humans and and ambassadors of america you know and of american
01:33:06.200
values and and dude this isn't white supremacy or racist or that's all shit that they say to get us
01:33:12.920
to stay from that spot because they know because what happens when everybody starts getting along
01:33:18.020
they're fucked by the way why do you think they want us to argue why do they think they want us
01:33:23.000
to fight because if we're arguing and fighting amongst each other we can't see the shit they're
01:33:26.360
doing to us that's a fact so fuck like wake the fuck up like i don't know how to end that bro like i
01:33:35.940
just i think you just did yeah that was good that was good so i i have i've been taking notes over
01:33:40.940
here i got a few few show highlights for you one i will show you my uh my wokeness who the fuck is
01:33:47.180
topher topher's a black conservative music artist he's fucking for town music oh dude he has the
01:33:54.660
number one billboard song patriot by the way i'm dj's neighbor white new balances mower stripes
01:34:00.140
no you're the king white dad so so that's racist for whatever the fuck it is truth it's also the
01:34:07.380
truth yeah so here's the thing um that dude has had his music blocked off every fucking platform
01:34:14.000
and he's still the fucking number one just like they cancel morgan wall and i turn his ass on
01:34:18.920
all right he had another song i feel like terry cruz then he's got the patriot song like he's got
01:34:24.540
some bangers man i like terry cruz facts are racist i think he's doing that here i think he's
01:34:29.240
too too i just he's got a fucking article there's a lot of and that's what's weird about the the like
01:34:35.140
the conservative movement yeah just using rap music right we were all talking about how we love rap
01:34:39.420
music yeah yeah well i love the fact that these guys right they're in the conservative but they're
01:34:43.600
they're really changing and breaking up things about hip-hop yeah right we're used to the cussing
01:34:48.860
the suicidal poetry with good beats right that glorifies degrading women drugs and game banging
01:34:55.420
xanax right these guys have figured out a way to make good music with good beats with no cussing
01:35:01.020
and it's funny it's funny too dude uh um principles and values of faith right who's
01:35:07.360
you have right you have bryson gray you have uh tofer you have forgi auto blow who's the white guy
01:35:12.740
who's you like lecrae you ever heard of lecrae um i've heard of lecrae yeah you should check him out
01:35:17.060
who's the white rapper that's doing that too that's uh forgi auto blow is it forgi auto blow is
01:35:23.720
based out of tampa man he's pretty good huh he's good too yeah he had um i'm a proud american
01:35:27.960
i think tommy vex is doing there's a couple of her oh tommy vex is doing stuff with tophar
01:35:32.680
yep you hit it on the nail yeah um but tophar it's the back end to check out tophar man yeah
01:35:38.980
tophar is gonna love like oh man you know it's tophar has opened up so many doors and
01:35:45.260
helped me so much so i know he'll really appreciate when he hears yeah i think we're gonna we love you
01:35:50.540
man no no no i'm gonna have him on the show i'm talking to him when he comes yeah i'm gonna come
01:35:55.400
up here too we're gonna put tophar's ass through a workout too all right all right hey i so and
01:36:00.580
then there's another thing i think you know we changed you know a lot changed in our lifetime
01:36:03.900
you know for us got you know when we were younger you know you used to watch news is a lot about
01:36:07.740
highlighting the good you know you see a lot of the good things and the neighborly deeds and
01:36:11.840
you know it was about going out and promoting because you would be rewarded for doing good now it's
01:36:16.100
the reward system is for doing bad you know what i mean who's the most fucked up who could fuck up
01:36:20.940
you know and it and i think that controlling that piece of life is is sad because you know
01:36:25.520
the inspirational stories when we were kids they would inspire you right you get the you used to
01:36:30.440
watch the 30 on 30s and they were they were they were positive of the east 60s and they were they
01:36:34.640
were overcoming struggle and hardship and i think you know we don't see that anymore when you turn on
01:36:38.720
the news and you don't and unfortunately the our youth the young kids you know they don't they
01:36:43.760
don't get to see the um the qualities of helping your neighbor right loving your neighbor and being a good
01:36:49.420
human in society i think that's changed i wrote a note here i don't know what the fuck it says next
01:36:52.600
one let me add to that so right now the leadership that they have which we've seen them on record
01:36:58.080
saying hey robbing the gucci store robbing the macy's that's right that's reparation they have
01:37:03.740
poor leadership that's right they they confuse a generation of people that is out there they're
01:37:08.460
thinking that committing crimes and doing those things is social justice that's to come together
01:37:12.620
right so it's just poor leadership at this point they need good leadership that people to show
01:37:16.680
them an example hey it's okay to be a doctor not everybody's going to be a rapper you could be a
01:37:20.940
doctor or a lawyer or start your own business or maybe you're a pastor right there's a lot of other
01:37:26.100
things that we're successful in that are just not glorifying yeah and i be the change in the world you
01:37:32.480
want to be right i mean that's a lead by example it's a core value of ours here at first form but i mean
01:37:37.080
you have to be the change that you want to see in order for it to change around your environment you
01:37:41.960
have to go first and i think that's a that's a thing that's scary you know in and of itself
01:37:46.400
no matter what age group you're in you know for you to step outside your comfort zone it's hard
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but that's what's necessary in order to make the change i uh you know a key factor that i've learned
01:37:55.900
in life there's two things and i'll leave you with this you know education educate in execution you know
01:37:59.900
you got to learn the knowledge first the podcast you talked about picking up a book listening to a
01:38:04.120
podcast paying attention buying a course you know one of the goals of the show is to help educate
01:38:08.960
help teach one of the goals of our brand is help educate help teach to change your life
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but without execution it ain't gonna fucking work you know without taking that first step it ain't
01:38:17.020
actions without actions bro you ain't gonna get shit you can wish in one hand shit in the other
01:38:20.580
the only one's gonna reveal a fucking surprise for you so understanding that hey man you got to take
01:38:25.500
the steps to control your own mileage and your own power don't drive don't let that narrative that
01:38:29.360
they push down through you be the education you have go out and seek and look and read and
01:38:33.600
and do research and read the left piece right read the right piece figure out who you want to be and
01:38:39.400
like to andrew's point earlier is like hey man i don't give a fuck if you're left right or center i
01:38:43.220
give a fuck that you know the facts and we can have a conversation yeah i don't and i can deal with
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the other shit like hey man we don't agree cool but i'm not a motherfucker because i don't agree with
01:38:53.120
you and i'm not saying you're a motherfucker because you don't agree with me you know fuck you i'm
01:38:56.280
gonna shoot no no no yeah we've lost that in this country we have there's no have a good civil
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conversation there's no more discourse we didn't lose that that's just not promoting no no no bro
01:39:05.440
that was purposely worked out of our cut out of our i agree yeah well and i think that goes back
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to your piece about love you know love is love man that's it no color yeah that's not only is it no
01:39:15.200
color there's a love and respect is is an understanding of like you know i i can still
01:39:19.560
share those feelings with you even though we disagree you know we can i can still take care of
01:39:23.060
your children you take care of mine like we get we go into hell or high water and shootout breaks
01:39:27.040
down at mcdonald's i'm gonna go fuck what color you are you know i'm protecting your kids you protect
01:39:30.100
mine we'll get that guy right there's a piece of that that's lost right now the same wall that you
01:39:34.360
put up to keep out disappointment is the same wall that'll keep out your blessing that's right
01:39:38.000
and my last thing is you know is andrew talked about and that's that's good shit it is it's great
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um did i lose your thought there no no no no no no i was getting ready to say you know i can't wait
01:39:49.180
to read the quote on your instagram but my my my add head fucking shoots off into squirrel land
01:39:53.620
the uh you know your hardship is your win understanding that like you know you're a young
01:40:01.140
guy and you talk about you know no matter where you where you start that's your strength your
01:40:06.420
biggest struggle is your biggest strength for every single success story that i've learned to identify
01:40:10.500
the thing that they struggle with the most ultimately becomes the thing that they're best at
01:40:15.020
you going to prison is the best thing that ever happened to you you can't see it at the fucking time
01:40:19.440
absolutely but it's the best fucking thing to happen to you because it gives you perspective
01:40:22.840
of the struggle so that you can overcome it right most people stay in the struggle they can't they
01:40:27.320
can't they can't they they victimize themselves to stay in that little fucking bubble and it's like
01:40:31.520
understanding that you know that struggle that you're gonna overcome through taking the education
01:40:36.700
executing on that fucking on that challenge is the is the piece that's most recognizable to everyone
01:40:42.560
else it's the piece that will help everyone else it's the piece that's going to help build your
01:40:46.160
legacy because it's going to pull those people out of that same struggle it's called
01:40:49.260
experience you know and you have to learn to experience struggle pain suffering investment
01:40:54.760
sacrifice all those fucking things that nobody really likes to have but you realize it's all
01:40:59.220
the strengths that you're gonna have yeah and it starts because of the hardship that you've put in
01:41:02.820
you got to learn you got to overcome that and that's the thing man like don't get down on yourself
01:41:06.820
because you got dealt a shit hand of cards learn to say okay how the fuck can i take this shit
01:41:11.000
hand of cards and make these three twos fucking play the game you know what else um prison was the
01:41:18.540
best thing to happen to me but guess what else everybody that's listening if you were born in
01:41:22.000
america you won the lottery the lottery right they used to tell us that when we were kids
01:41:27.100
that i grew up yeah like man you're born in america yeah we have so much opportunity so
01:41:32.740
i can remember kids telling us dude i can remember the teachers telling us you're lucky you live in
01:41:36.740
america not china in china they kill people speaking out against government
01:41:40.220
oh i mean i feel like mind you we said in the anthem there's flags in the classroom
01:41:44.660
that's what i'm saying we used to do the pledge allegiance everything yeah the whole nine we do
01:41:48.720
it here every day at 10 o'clock just so you know um you were telling me that's very patriotic like
01:41:53.900
think about that shit dude it's important to do that we we have become that yeah like now people
01:41:58.720
won't even speak up dude you guys have american steel it's impressive oh and the way and the
01:42:03.740
i said man this is this is a real american patriotic company right that's right great
01:42:09.760
culture here too thank you everybody's nice the value system's intact it's it's amazing it's it
01:42:18.180
literally made me self-reflect on things that i need to get better on as a leader just in my own
01:42:22.120
business you know what i mean so i love it man dude i think the value system is intact out there in
01:42:27.640
the real world too it's just it takes people like us on the motherfucking internet or in the news
01:42:32.300
like dude when i go out in the real world and talk to people dude they're cool they're cool
01:42:37.140
yeah like 99 yeah yeah do you have one shit interaction of course yeah but i don't look
01:42:43.160
at that person and say oh yeah well that person's asian fuck fuck asians
01:42:47.000
like no you say fuck you yeah that's funny shit help me with my math homework oh that's too far
01:42:55.460
bro that's the mentality we got everybody's got right now it's like you know they have one bad
01:43:00.040
experience with somebody or something and it's a fucking you know fuck all that whole group of
01:43:04.120
people no that's kind of weird yeah just fuck that guy just because somebody's an asshole to you
01:43:09.480
or you met somebody who was a dick doesn't make them like a racist no at all they could have been
01:43:14.860
having a bad day their dog could have just died have you ever had a bad day yeah that's what i'm saying
01:43:19.580
like shit like not everybody i think i think my one of my universal uh truths something i'm taking
01:43:26.140
from this was a great great uh great show one of my universal truths that i like to always think
01:43:33.180
about is that you know from the beginning of time and forever on after you know thousands of years
01:43:39.560
after we all leave this planet there's always going to be good and there's always going to be evil
01:43:44.680
which one are you going to perpetuate right and and so you can be on either side of that line
01:43:50.760
right like but but forever and ever always and always those two things will always exist and
01:43:56.600
those two things will always try to fight each other which one are you going to perpetuate which
01:44:01.480
one are you going to push which one are you going to live by which wolf are you going to feed that's
01:44:04.760
right that's it and so i mean i think if you if you live by that and you can take the rest of the
01:44:08.820
stuff you put that stuff to the side are you going to be for good or are you going to be for evil
01:44:13.120
And that is a choice that only you can make for yourself.
01:44:16.520
And not only that, you know inherently which is which.
01:44:20.280
Just to add another thing, for me, not everybody's going to get locked up.
01:44:29.520
Even I would argue maybe I didn't really, maybe I wasn't really dealt bad cards compared to this guy over here.
01:44:37.400
But let's say you're somebody that, you come from a very good family.
01:44:42.460
Your parents, maybe they work their ass off to give you a better life and you don't necessarily have any struggle.
01:44:47.840
What's amazing about your journey of actually doing something in life, something impactful, right?
01:44:54.880
We all know the more people that you serve, service to the many is what leads to greatness is what Jim Rohn would say.
01:45:00.280
Let's say you're somebody that doesn't have hardship.
01:45:02.680
I guarantee you when you're on your path to trying to actually build something, you're going to be faced with some hardships.
01:45:08.100
You're going to be faced with some challenges that can give you that fuel, right?
01:45:12.320
And give you that experience that you need, that molds you and gives you that gratitude and, you know, that, that, that wisdom, that experience that you need to, to carry on for.
01:45:22.200
So if you're somebody out there that you, maybe you come from good background, you don't have any real struggles.
01:45:28.540
You don't have to get in trouble to be, make a story of yourself or be inspirational or build something.
01:45:32.800
And you come from a good set of family and there's no struggles, but I promise you, when you start going on down that path of building something, you're going to be faced with challenges.
01:45:50.700
So I, I, I, I've been, uh, I've been kind of the, uh, the history nerd, but I'm going to be a history nerd again.
01:45:57.780
And December 7th, 1941, Imperial Japan drops the bomb, excuse me, attacks, bombs, Pearl Harbor, right?
01:46:04.980
A couple of weeks after that, Nazi Germany and, and, uh, fascist Italy declares war on the United States of America.
01:46:11.420
Do you guys know that when that happened, the week that that had, the couple of weeks that that happened, the United States military was not ranked one or five or seven or nine or even 13th.
01:46:22.900
They were ranked the 19th army in the world at that time.
01:46:27.380
They were actually ranked below Holland and Belgium.
01:46:31.060
And yet within a year, they had built the greatest fighting force that the world had seen.
01:46:37.720
And prior to the beginning of the war, prior to our entry into the war, it took a whole year to build a B-17 bomber.
01:46:43.680
After we realized that there was a threat, it took us 17 days.
01:46:49.500
The people of America at that time, black, white, Jew, Gentile, Protestant, Catholic, whatever,
01:46:54.560
they realized that there was a threat and they came together.
01:46:58.180
And what I don't think that most people understand, and I think our listeners understand this,
01:47:02.520
but I don't think most people understand this in our country.
01:47:05.160
This whole woke mentality, this whole mentality of victimhood and blaming, this is the threat.
01:47:11.960
And if good people, black, white, Jew, Gentile, Protestant, Catholic, et cetera, et cetera,
01:47:16.500
if we don't come together and band together and fight against it, there's probably a threat greater than Hitler that's going to take over.
01:47:25.900
And I don't mean to sound melodramatic, but that's how serious it is.
01:47:29.040
So I think everybody of goodwill should band together and just say, no more.
01:47:35.940
I mean, from my observations, you know, because I was pretty much a year ahead of what I was saying this exact same shit a year ago,
01:47:50.220
Now, the resistance that we get on these messages is far less, and the promotion is far more.
01:47:56.840
So I think people are saying, hey, man, wait a minute.
01:48:03.820
Listen, there is a time and a place for you to look at someone and say, hey, fuck you.
01:48:15.860
Don't come back around me until you figure the fuck out.
01:48:18.820
And, dude, unless we start doing that, and this is something for the parents.
01:48:24.160
Like, this is where, and I'm going to leave off of this.
01:48:27.260
You people that have kids, and you're being quiet, and you're letting them do all this crazy shit, like put your kids in masks, and all this fucking bullshit, and keep them out of school, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
01:48:41.460
You realize that your silence is creating a massive problem for your children, a massive problem.
01:48:48.060
And if it were me, and they were my kids, I don't have kids, and I get up here and speak about it all the time.
01:48:52.620
But if it were me, and I was silent, and I was letting all this shit happen, I couldn't live with myself.
01:48:58.840
And you should be, too, if you're fucking sitting there agreeing with everything that we say, and not saying a motherfucking word about it.
01:49:13.280
But, dude, I'm going to wrap the show up with that, man.
01:49:21.660
Want to have you come back on the show again, for sure.
01:49:27.180
And when you say, I just want you, when you say we need more leaders, bro, you're leading.
01:49:34.640
So, I appreciate what you're doing, and what you're saying, and what you're about.
01:49:47.640
So, you guys should go give him a follow up on what he's doing.
01:50:05.360
Put that in the show, because that is fucking hilarious.
01:50:10.960
I think he just kicked the chair off from underneath DJ.
01:50:26.420
If you thought the show was good, if you gained some perspective, share it around for us.
01:50:30.640
We don't do any of the advertisements, our marketing, some of these bigger shows do.
01:50:40.400
And that means if we're doing good, the show is doing good.
01:50:42.480
So if you guys wouldn't mind, if you got something out of it, have the courage to share the conversation.
01:50:49.140
I know a lot of you guys don't share these conversations because you think that people are going to look at you a different way.
01:50:56.400
They'll probably look at you like you have a spine.